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If you’d have put a bet on David De Gea making this list six months ago, the bookie would’ve laughed in your face. The young Spanish goalkeeper was struggling to keep his place in the team after a series of inconsistent performances early in the season.

However, he has grown and adapted so rapidly in the past few months that Manchester United have stormed to the BPL title, keeping six successive clean sheets over the spring period.

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Pablo Zabaleta is the only member of last season’s title winners to make the cut in 2013. He has shown consistent passion, drive and hunger whilst many of his team mates lacked it, as well as acting as a brilliant leader in a season which saw defensive and midfield lynchpins Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure sidelined for lengthy spells.

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Gareth Bale, Tottenham Hotspur’s Welsh midfielder, has scooped both major awards for 2012/13. His contribution to Tottenham’s season has been absolutely massive. Without his goals, Spurs would be 15 points worse off and out of contention for qualifying for next season’s Champions League.

This isn’t his first PFA accolade — he won PFA Player of the Year in 2009/10. He also becomes the third person in history to win both awards at the same time following Andy Gray in 1977 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007, and the fifth person to win the PFA award twice.

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